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4 Stocks Dragging The Services Sector Downward

1. As of noon trading,
Yum Brands (
YUM) is down $1.21 (-1.7%) to $69.96 on average volume Thus far, 2.6 million shares of Yum Brands exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.0 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $69.76-$70.92 after having opened the day at $70.83 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $71.17.

YUM! Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates quick service restaurants in the United States and internationally. It operates in six segments: YUM Restaurants China, YUM Restaurants International, Taco Bell U.S., KFC U.S., Pizza Hut U.S., and YUM Restaurants India. Yum Brands has a market cap of $32.4 billion and is part of the leisure industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Yum Brands a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Yum Brands as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full
Yum Brands Ratings Report now.

A reminder about TheStreet Ratings group: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.